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Butler County roundup - Unemployment, levy requests up
A couple issues of interest in our paper in recent days:
Butler County’s unemployment rose in June, bucking a trend of declining jobless rates here since the beginning of the year.
But the change is largely due to a swelling of the work force in June from college and high school graduates actively looking for work and to the loss of U.S. Census jobs, said Benjamin Johnson, spokesman for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.
U.S. unemployment rates, meanwhile, dropped from 9.7 percent to 9.5 percent in June.
Unemployment rates in Butler County went from 9.6 percent in May to 10.1 percent in June, according to reports released Tuesday, July 20, by the state. The county’s rate in June 2009 was 10 percent.
MetroParks of Butler County’s commissioners mixed up its normal routine when it held its monthly commissioners meeting at Augspurger House Chrisholm Historic Farmstead.
The meeting has normally been conducted at Voice of America Park in West Chester Twp.
The location change is just one attempt for the board to branch out to all of Butler County in efforts of passing the 0.5-mill levy going before voters on Nov. 2.
Butler County Commissioners say they will decide next week whether to place a proposed senior services levy on the November ballot and if for the first time senior centers would be included in a ballot initiative.
Directors of agencies operating senior centers in Hamilton, Fairfield, West Chester Twp., Oxford and Middletown asked commissioners Monday, July 19, to increase the proposed Butler County Elderly Services 1.3-mill levy by 0.2 mills to fund the centers. However, the elderly services levy language may not allow for funds to be allocated to a senior citizen facility, which may necessitate two separate levies, according to county officials.
Supporters for a levy filled the commission chamber. Suzanne Burke, who heads the Council on Aging, noted the levy funds 92 percent of the county’s elderly services program, which assists nearly 4,000 residents a year.
Any thoughts on any of this?
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By Rick
July 21, 2010 10:41 AM | Link to this
It’s time Butler County learns to do with less and the Senior Services Levy is a good place to start. Don Dixon continues to talk of downsizing government, here he has a place to put his words into action, let’s see if he has the will power to do it.
By Gary
July 22, 2010 9:58 AM | Link to this
Ten percent of the people in Butler County are unemployed and the Parks Commission and the County Commissioners think now is the time to add additional taxes on taxpayers. Commissioners it’s time to show you have a brain and reject the idea of this levy.